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It's become an annual event. Every year we part with our hard earned dollars donating to campaigns like "R U OK?" Day and Mental Health Month to erase the stigma on mental illness. I get it. It's important to talk about it, but does "just talking about it" do anything? Does it change anything? Does it actually help people?
These campaigns tell us about the importance of listening to people's problems and they're right: sometimes that's all it takes. So what if someone turns to you and says they're not OK and they need more than a pair of ears? What if they need medical help and there's nothing available?
I've been there. There was a time in my life where I didn't know what was wrong. I was in my first year of university and unemployed. I hated my life, I felt it had no purpose and I didn't know how to be happy. I remember talking to my best friend one night. She knew something was wrong and asked if I was OK. How could I tell her I wasn't? At that point I completely fell apart. I felt lost and didn't know who to turn to for help. I know I'm not the only one. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, one in five Australians aged 16-85 experience a mental illness in any year. At any time of the year. Let's put that into perspective. If you're at work, at school or on the dreaded train ride home, there will be someone near you who's fighting a battle you don't know about.
Don't get me wrong. We should always encourage open discussion about mental health, but we should also be putting more effort into providing more services to keep up with the demand from people who are "not OK''. Australia's mental health network is complex and can be difficult for someone to find a service that suits their needs. People often turn to their local GP, who refer them to a psych, who is often booked for three months in advance, because there are simply not enough mental health professionals available.
The way we are sharing our "support" is to make ourselves look good. I've seen it for myself. My social media has been inundated with countless "brave" selfies with #ruok and long posts from friends, family and B-grade celebrities declaring their compassion and support for Mental Health Month.
Where are all these people in between campaigns when millions of others are suffering their own silent battles? When thousands of people commit suicide because there was none of that amazing "support" they're promoting online? Like a hashtag after a terrorist attack or a hurricane. Until tomorrow, when the next hashtag trends.
There are people out there making a difference. Health workers, police, paramedics, teachers, friends and family see the effect of mental illness on a daily basis. If you want to make a difference, donate to organisations that are actually at the coal face helping people with mental illness, volunteer to raise money, or assist existing services that are tirelessly trying to work with the thousands of people begging for help. Mental illness doesn't switch on at the start of a campaign. Nor is it cured by a hashtag or a slogan. Every day should be "R U OK?" day.
Claudia Bonnici is a Melbourne writer.


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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is hosting a consumer protection information session for seniors in Portsmouth.
The event is being held Friday at 10 a.m. at the Portsmouth Library.
Shaheen will be joined by Derick Rill of the Federal Trade Commission; James Bofetti of the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office; and Mike Gendron of the U.S. Postal Service. They will offer tips and advice about identity theft, discount club memberships, medical discount scams and credit and loan offers.

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Hello everyone,
had some life bending experiences this last month, i wont bore you with them and honestly i cant even type it its still hurting as ****.
anyways i thought id pick your brains a bit, my latest painting, this has never been my style but eh life i gues.
anyways have a nice day and cheers.


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Wool And Mohair Programs payments in Monroe County, New York totaled $10,992 from 1995-2019‡.
Counties in Monroe County, New York Receiving Wool And Mohair Programs payments, 1995-2019‡
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‡ Data for 2019 is incomplete and only includes Market Facilitation Program payments made between January 1, 2019 and October 31, 2019.


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I'm a part of the Saucony Team #26Strong and today officially kicks off training for my partner, Andi! I'm so excited for her and the entire journey to the finish line. I know she will do awesome come November 2 when we line up together at the City of Oaks Marathon in Raleigh, NC. When it comes to my personal training and especially working with someone who hasn't run a marathon before, my main goal for her is to enjoy the whole experience. One thing I cannot stress enough to anyone who is running or beginning running is that you can never get your 'firsts' back. Once you run your first, you'll always remember it so make the most of the experience and don't worry about time. Instead, soak up the scenery, the crowd and the feeling of finishing. We've discussed her training plan and schedule as she is a PA in Charlotte. The furthest she has run previously is a 10K so it will be a whole new world for her running this far and her training is a blank slate, which I am excited about.
When putting together her training plan, I discussed with her how I wanted her to feel while running and to make sure that she is actually enjoying training. I've run a lot of different training cycles and it really works well when I run less with the most important run of the week being the long run, because I know the mileage is what really matters come race day. Normally, when I'm coaching, I'm coaching cross country which is only a 3 mile race. Because I haven't really 'trained' many people to run their first marathon beyond a few tips and tricks and putting together a very loose training plan for them, this is my first real go at it. I'm glad that Andi and I have a relationship where we talk often and are open with each other to discuss how things are going and I know she will be honest with me.
So here's is her first month, July! I'm having her start out slowly and build her mileage up each week increasing by one mile for the long runs. The runs throughout the week are just to keep the legs fresh and can all be done at whatever pace she wants to run at. I told her if she wanted to run more because she felt great or switch up the run to do an interval, to do those on Wednesday because then it gives her legs time to recover for her long run on Saturday. If you would like to download the full 4 Month Marathon Training Schedule – you can do so here: Four Month Marathon Training Schedule
I also registered for the race yesterday before the prices went up! I'm excited to run in November with her and know it will be such a fun weekend with her entire family at the finish line and a bunch of her friends and family running the first half with us as well.
As for me, I'm going to start training for Long Beach once we get back from Cabo in August. Before we go to Mexico, I'm going to keep running and have my long runs be between 8-13 miles on the weekends consistently, but for right now I'm really enjoying my 30 mile weeks of more relaxing running after the tough training cycle month I had in May. I'm still deciding how I want to 'run' Long Beach, so we'll see what my training schedule looks like come August.
It's going to be a fun four months leading up to race day and I know she can do it. Anyone can run, it's all mental if they can do it or not. Let's do this Team Lovie 26!


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Conan O'Brien took a trip to this year's BlizzCon to play World of Warcraft's next expansion and to try to understand one of the most popular MMOs out there. But he also stepped in as a commentator for the World of Warfract Arena Global Finals with, well, not much knowledge of the game at all.
Let's just say, we're fortunate enough that he didn't appear during the StarCraft WCS finals.
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Hungarian GP 2013
Thursday Press Conference
DRIVERS " Esteban GUTIERREZ (Sauber), Paul DI RESTA (Force India), Valtteri BOTTAS (Williams), Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes), Kimi RAIKKONEN (Lotus), Pastor MALDONADO (Williams)
Q: Good afternoon. We'll start with Lewis Hamilton. As a three-time winner here and a two-time pole-sitter, I think the heat is on, literally, here this weekend for you to try to make it four wins. Forty degrees ambient expected on Sunday, how much is that going to be a disadvantage to you and Mercedes?
Lewis HAMILTON: It's good to see everyone again. It's going to be tough this weekend definitely " the conditions will not help. Plus, we haven't driven the tyres as everyone else has. We've got a bit of catching up to do, but that's what we do best and we just have to work as hard as we can this weekend to try to understand the tyres and put ourselves in the best position possible. We have a lot of work to do to continue to improve our race pace, but I anticipate it will be a difficult weekend.
Q: Do you think you are at more of a disadvantage, are you worse off, or is every team in the same boat with the temperatures this weekend?
Hamilton: I'm sure everyone is going to have to open up their cars, so everyone in in the same boat in terms of car packaging and the heat that the cars are absorbing. Tyre-wise, of course there are teams that will deal with it slightly better than us, just naturally, and there are some people that will deal with it the same as us.
Q: Nine races into your Mercedes career and we're almost at the half-way point of the season. Do you see still yourself as a championship contender?
Hamilton: I don't really look at myself as a championship contender at the moment. Of course, we're fourth, we're second as a team in the Constructors' Championship, so... just at the beginning of the season everyone was writing me off and then all of a sudden they changed their opinions and we've had some really good results. That's just due to all the hard work the team are putting in and we're not giving up. We're going to keep pushing. We hope that we're going to get some wins in the future races coming. It's going to be tough but I'm really happy with how the season has gone so far, especially compared to where the team was last year, it's a massive step.
Q: Let's turn to Pastor Maldonado next. Can we start with a comment about Williams' appointment in the last few days of Pat Symonds, who comes in as technical director. From a driver's perspective, how welcome is that and how necessary do you think it was that the team have a new technical director and new leadership in that part of the company?
Pastor MALDONADO: We had a hard beginning to the season with the car, fighting a lot to improve and develop the conditions and the performance. It's quite tough for us, still. We try to put everything together in the past races. Some races we were a bit better, some others not. Especially the consistency and the race pace is quite good on our car, just missing a lot of performance in quali which is penalising us a lot. Starting from the back is not the best for us. Yeah, I think we need some change. The way, how we've been working, trying to improve out performance was not the best and for sure any change in a good way is very welcome.
Q: What about yourself at the moment? I think 'silly season' is very much upon us, a few rumours in the press about your future career. Did you take much notice of that? Can it be a destabilising factor for a driver?
Maldonado: No, I'm still full focused on the season. I think we can still improve. We are a strong team. Last year we were fighting for good places, sometimes even fighting for the podium and this year, some years you miss the pace. We just need to be together as a team, work harder than before, try to fix the problem and to be there again. I think we have all the tools to become again very competitive.
Q: Thanks Pastor. Esteban, let's turn to you next. Looking at the championship table, you're the leading rookie, how do you assess your performance in the first half of your first Formula One season?
Esteban GUTIERREZ: It's been very challenging. Obviously I'm not completely happy with how the first part of the season went. But again, being a rookie I've been focusing a lot on gaining a lot of experience to improve every part I can. I think what matters is the second half of the season, Everything will be judged on how the second half goes and I'm full focused on what is happening from now own.
Q: What areas have you been focusing on most? Where do you think improvements need to be made?
Gutierrez: I think qualifying can be improved a lot. There's obviously a lot of variable playing into account on performance, sometimes different car set-ups, different things, trying to experiment with new things. Obviously this puts the situation a little bit more difficult. The team's situation is not the best. We were expecting a lot better performance from the car. But we are close as a team and we are working ourselves to get all these things right.
Q: Because of that situation you mentioned with the team, do you feel you haven't had the full opportunity to show exactly what you can do?
Gutierrez: Well, definitely it's affecting that, but as I said the second part of the season there is a good chance to show what is really our performance, our capabilities and obviously to put everything together, to reflect everything in the results.
Q: Valtteri, if we could turn to you, the other rookie amongst us this afternoon. Did you feel you've had the opportunity to fully show your ability behind the wheel or is the performance of the car not helping you?
Valtteri BOTTAS: I think for sure it's not helping. Also we expected a much better start for the season. If you would be consistently fighting in the top ten, everyone would see maybe a bit more of what you can do. It's not easy but I'm trying my best and I think still improving a lot all the time. I think the first half of the season hasn't been too bad for me. Of course when I look back there's always things you could have done better. You learn all the time, that's how it is.
Q: With Pat Symonds arrival, is it too much to expect results will turn around this year, very quickly? As a driver is that something you will be looking for?
Bottas: Of course you would hope so but I think the fact is it's not a quick fix. It's still going to take time and we need to keep working on the areas where we need to improve and I think it's more about the future, not necessarily the end of the year. Of course we try to improve. Any improvement would be nice because it's so close at the moment. For me it's a positive thing. It was good to work with Mike before but I think at this stage maybe we just need some new ideas and new opinions.
Q: Paul, a change to the tyres again this weekend. 2012 construction, 2013 compounds, you had a chance to drive with them at Silverstone. Force India, some say, might be disadvantages by these tyre changes. How fearful are you that this could be proved true?
Paul DI RESTA: It's a hard one. Obviously we got a little bit of an impression at Silverstone but I think it was directed to enable Pirelli to understand their tyre more, that they're bringing for the rest of the season. Tomorrow's going to be busy, it's the first time that we get to try some setup things and actually understand them but yes, we did have a good idea of where the tyres were working and how to use them over a race distance. That's not to say that this won't continue and, on the flip side, it may suit the car better. It's completely unknown. All we can do is do what we can and the team is working hard to try and score some points because we missed them in the Nurburgring.
Q: In terms of this season, it's been a successful season for yourself and for Force India but with resources tight at the team and the concentration having to come on 2014 eventually. As a driver, how difficult is that balancing act going to be? I'm sure you want to fully focus on 2013 and not so much on 2014 at the moment.
Di Resta: It's certainly a harder balance this year, I think, with the new regs for next year. I think everybody at the factory is probably focussed on next year whereas we as a race team are focussed on this year. Just a lot of racing, a lot of points and a lot of laps that we need to be on top of our game. Ultimately where we reward ourselves, this will help the team next year in terms of Constructors' position. That's why I think everybody here is trying to stay on top of McLaren if we can. We can't underestimate what they are and what they do. Up until the last weekend of racing we were having a damn good season and there's no reason why we can't get our elbows out and fight even harder.
Q: Kimi, like Lewis you've had plenty of success in Hungary. I think one more podium and you equal the record for the most about of podiums for a driver here. With the high temperatures, does that play into your hands a little bit on Sunday? If we go on the form of Germany, we assume it should do.
Kimi RAIKKONEN: I think we've always been a bit more happy when it's more warm. Now it's a bit difficult to say with the new " or different " tyres than we raced at the beginning of the year but last year helped us and the tyres should be a mix of this year and last year so let's hope that it works well for us.
Q: You didn't go to Silverstone. Did you think twice that maybe you should?
Raikkonen: No. The decision was made with the team that there was not really so much... it was better for the team to put a young driver in it because we were not allowed to do any changes as a race driver, so with that sort of rules you don't really learn much. We would only have had one set of tyres or so, and so it was overall better for the team to use our test drivers.
Q: Red Bull? Lotus? Maybe somewhere else? It's silly season and you seem to be, you appear to be if the stories are true, very much a man in demand. When you look at next season and where you may or may not be driving, what are the factors that go through your mind in helping you make that decision?
Raikkonen: There's not really one thing. I think there is going to be an overall package and whatever feels right for me. Whatever the decision will be it might feel stupid to somebody else but then it might feel right for me. I have no idea what will happen. We have to wait and see what will come but hopefully whatever it will be, it will be the right choice.
Q: (Gerhard Potochnik - Kleine Zeitung) We are talking about the future; a few days ago Red Bull and Bernie Ecclestone announced that there would be an Austrian Grand Prix next July. Can you tell us your thoughts about this?
Raikkonen: I was there maybe two years ago or something the last time. It looks slightly different. The circuit is exactly the same, I think. It's a nice place to go, I think. It's not a very difficult circuit because it hasn't got many corners, but it usually produces very good racing because of the layout of the straights and the tight corners. I'm more than happy to go back there.
Q: Paul, a new venue on the calendar, does that excite you?
Di Resta: A new event, yeah. I've never been there so I don't know what to expect but it looks a very good track from what Kimi said.
Gutierrez: It looks interesting, obviously another track, hard to know what to expect but it's always interesting to go to a new place.
Q: (Heikki Kulta " Turun Sanomat) Kimi, if it's really going to be 40 degrees for the race, is that really going to be too hot for you and your car? Is it a big risk for your record of finishing races?
Raikkonen: It's the same for everybody, obviously. It will be a bit more tricky for cars and everything, brakes, everything for the drivers, but it's not the first time that it will be hot when we are racing. If it's going to be that hot we will see what happens. It was meant to be hot today and it was raining. Things change quickly.
Q: (Dan Knutson " Auto Action/National Speedsport News) Kimi, following on from the earlier question about Red Bull; you don't like to do PR, Red Bull likes its drivers to do a lot of PR. How much PR work would you put up with if it means you have a winning car?
Raikkonen: Obviously you can't have a guarantee what will happen next year with any team or any cars. There are a lot of rumours about PR days but we have ten and some other teams have a hundred. I've been in most of the top teams and I know exactly how it goes and if you count things that you do during the week and during a weekend and you put everything together, everybody has a different way of counting the days. I'm sure it's not " at least in my knowledge " the difference between the teams is in days and it's not a deciding factor.
Q: (Michael Noir Trawniczek - Rally and More) Kimi, when you are chosing the package and the right team, what sort of questions do you ask, how technical is it, do you visit the factory, things like that? How do you make your choice?
Raikkonen: I think it's like I said earlier, it's a combination of things and it has to be right on racing and outside of racing. Basically everything just has to feel right and I think in the end it comes down to whatever I think is the right choice and there will be no guarantee that the choice will be the good one in the long run but I'm fine with it, whatever the outcome will be; you live with the choices.
Q: Is any choice for next year complicated by the fact that the engine regulations, the rule regulations have changed quite drastically?
Raikkonen: Obviously it would be much easier for everybody to more or less get an idea what will happen next year without those big changes but that's how it is. It really depends on whether one engine manufacturer gets it right and one wrong, then it might be a long season for some teams and an easier one for others but I don't know. You hear rumours but that's all I know about it.
Q: (Livio Oricchio " O Estado de Sao Paulo) Lewis, your team didn't take part in the Silverstone test; how does it affect your team and you and Nico from a driver's point of view?
Hamilton: To be honest, it doesn't really faze me. I think it would have definitely helped if we were there and we have an understanding of how to set up the car with the new tyres and to see what kind of characteristics they have and how they behave on long runs and all those kind of things but we will try and find that out this weekend. At the end of the day, it is what it is and we will just try to do the best with what we've got. It's a great team, I have no doubt that we will make up for the lost time.
Q: (Ian Parkes " Press Association) Gentlemen, you may have seen the story last week that Sauber are due to fast track a young Russian by the name of Sergey Sirotkin into Formula One. If he is on the grid at the start of next season, and he gains the necessary super licence, he will be 18-years old. Is 18 too young to be racing a Formula One car?
Maldonado: It's a difficult one because I don't know the driver very well. It's difficult to say. I think it's more up to the team and not to us.
Bottas: Yeah, I don't really know the background of this driver so it's difficult to say.
Di Resta: It's unfair to say anything. I don't think anybody knows too much about him because he's not been in racing cars too long.
Q: But is 18 too young to be a Formula One driver, if you take away the individual concerned?
Di Resta: You can never say never, can you? People surprise you with what they're doing. If that's a decision I'm sure there's a reason behind it.
Hamilton: I wasn't ready at 18. I was pretty good at 18, so...
Raikkonen: I'm sure there will be and has also been an 18-year old, I guess. For sure they will take him if they feel it's the right thing, so I don't see that age will be the problem. It's about experience and that. He might be ready, he might not. Time will tell.
Q: He might need a good teammate to look after him, Esteban.
Gutierrez: Well, very difficult to judge. What Kimi said comes down to experience, results. I think all of that should be taken into account.
Q: (Jose Maria Moreira " Organizacion Editorial Mexicana) Esteban, will Sergey Sirotkin and the Russian backers affect your future at Sauber?
Gutierrez: Well, that doesn't really make a difference to my current season so to be honest, my focus is here, it's on this season and I know very well what I have with the team, what has been my path with them over the last few years and what we're looking into in the future.
Q: (Gergely Denes) Kimi, last week there was some Twitter chat between Lewis and your team, a photo postcard of you and Roscoe, Lewis's dog. Are you aware of that and what is your opinion of it?
Raikkonen: It's the first I've heard of it. I don't have a Twitter account, I don't have any other things. I don't really have a comment.
Q: You weren't the man putting #where'sRoscoe on the side of the car?
Raikkonen: (Sighs and points to the team's PR man)
Q: (Peter Vamosi " Vas Nepe) Lewis, what is the difference between Nico Rosberg as a teammate in GP2 and Formula One?
Hamilton: I wasn't his teammate in GP2. I was his teammate in go-karts. It was more fun when we were in go-karts, that's about it. We're both older and wiser and yeah, we don't play as many games and kid games and all the silly things you do as a kid. He's more competitive now than he was back then.
Q: (Heikki Kulta " Turun Sanomat) Lewis, if Kimi goes to Red Bull, would he be an even harder competitor for you than he is now?
Hamilton: I think Kimi will always be one of the hardest competitors here. He's a fantastic driver, he's got great experience and he's constantly proving his abilities and I think whatever car you put him in he's going to be a fighting force in the field and of course he's doing a great job at Lotus, they've done a great job this year and over the last couple of years. I think whatever he decides either way, he will have a strong car and I just hope that we're competing with them.
Q: (Joo Gabor - Index) Kimi, we can divide your Formula One career into two; which one have you enjoyed most, the first one to 2009 or the second one now?
Raikkonen: I don't really count it as two. I did something else that I wanted to do between them and then obviously I wanted to race again. It hasn't really changed much. Obviously the team's different but I've been in different teams in the past and every team has a good side and some things that you are probably finding not that much fun. Obviously when you have decent results you have more fun that if you have bad years. I would say that is very similar, more or less the same people, same stuff. I have no real difference between earlier teams and how it is now.


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So I watch way too much BRAVO tv, Real Housewives all of that. At the end of every practice that I do with my husband, we usually do around 12 x 25s fly sprint.
He goes ten seconds ahead of me, and then lets me know what my time is. When I touch the wall he will tell me my time and if anyone were sitting near us they would probably be laughing their head off because we sound like an old bickering couple. It usually goes like this:
Kyle: "Ok 13. Good."...."Mid 13"
Me: "What do you mean?? Was it 13 or really 14? Are you lying to try to boost my confidence? My coach used to pull that, dont do that, I have to improve" (....next 25)
Kyle: "ok you were almost at 12....but you hit on the 13..."
Waa Waa Waa etc. LOL.
So lately my new thing, to add humor to our 25s, is when I touch the wall, he can say a certain word when I touch depending on the time. This pretty much makes both of us choke on water at the wall with laughter. Our scale goes like this. So for a 25 fly, a 13 is greattttt. A 12 is fabulousssss. An 11 would be excellenttttttt. Now you have to imagine these words drawn out in a really hilarious over the top manner... thats where imitating characters like some of the housewives from reality shows on BRAVO comes in, really over the top. Anyways, these sorts of things do make me laugh when I'm about to do a sprint,and having fun while swimming, and having humor about it makes it worthwhile.
I have been doing consistent 13s now. A month or so ago I was doing 14-15s. So my goal is to start hitting 12s. My ultimate life goal is 11s and I would be a happy camper.


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We love both these guys, so it's hard to get too worked up about this.
Nick Frost has apparently replaced Eddei Izzard as the dwarf Tiberius in the upcoming "Snow White and the Huntsman," reported Variety.
Frost joins Ian McShane as the alpha drawf Caesar, Bob Hoskins as Constantine, Toby Jones as Claudius, Stephen Graham as Nero, and Eddie Marsan and Winston as the twins Hadrian and Trajan.
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You have to hand it to Universal (even if you don't work for the same company), they have turned what looked to be a ho-hum romantic actioner starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron, and made it a film hotly anticipated within the nerd community by casting the dwarfs with seven of Britons best actors. Well played, folks.
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ORLANDO -- Ultrasound proved to be the equal of computed tomography (CT) for emergency department evaluation of suspected kidney stones, a randomized trial showed.
"We saw no difference in pain at 3 or 7 days, no difference in return to the emergency department, no difference in hospitalization, and ultrasound decreased cumulative radiation exposure at 1 day and at 6 months," said Marshall Stoller, MD, of the University of California San Francisco.
Action Points
- Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Ultrasound performed by a radiologist or emergency physician led to serious adverse events in about 11% of cases, as did CT. Severe and attributable serious adverse events occurred in fewer than 1% of 2,800 patients and rates did not differ between patients evaluated by ultrasound or CT, Stoller and colleagues reported here at the American Urological Association meeting.
Given the potential cost savings and avoidance of radiation exposure, the decision about which imaging test to use should be pretty obvious.
"Ultrasound should be used as the initial imaging test," Stoller said. "Further imaging should be at physician discretion and based on clinical judgment."
Stone disease is often suspected when patients go to emergency rooms for evaluation of pain in the abdomen or flank. Abdominal CT has become the most common initial imaging study for evaluating patients for the presence of kidney stone, having supplanted ultrasound and intravenous pyelogram.
CT has a high sensitivity for diagnosing stones but confers a cancer risk associated with radiation exposure. Additionally, abdominal CT often leads to incidental findings and inappropriate referrals and treatment.
"Despite the higher sensitivity of CT, there is no evidence that it improves patient outcomes compared with ultrasound," Stoller said.
To compare outcomes with ultrasound or CT as initial imaging, investigators at 15 academic centers in the U.S. enrolled patients with suspected nephrolithiasis and randomized them to one of three imaging strategies: ultrasound by emergency physicians, ultrasound performed by radiologists, or abdominal CT.
After initial imaging, additional care was at the discretion of the treating physician, including other imaging studies, treatment, and disposition.
The primary outcomes were rate of complications from missed diagnoses, cumulative exposure, and total costs. After the initial visit in the emergency department (ED), follow-up continued at 3, 7, 30, 90, and 180 days. At each follow-up contact, study participants completed detailed structures interviews.
Stoller said investigators used the FDA definition of serious adverse events: untoward medical consequences that resulted in death, were life threatening, required hospitalization, caused significant morbidity, or required medical or surgical intervention to prevent permanent impairment.
Patients also were followed for occurrence of severe adverse events, subsequent serious adverse events that included abdominal aortic aneurysm with rupture, pneumonia with sepsis, appendicitis with rupture, bowel ischemic or perforation, renal infarction, pyelonephritis with urosepsis, ovarian torsion with necrosis, and aortic dissection with ischemia.
To determine cumulative radiation exposure associated with CT scans, Stoller and colleagues included the initial CT in the ED, subsequent CT studies during the first 6 months, number of series, volume CT dose index, and dose-length product (converted to millisieverts or mSv).
Each of the three imaging categories (ultrasound by emergency physician, ultrasound by radiologist, or CT) included more than 900 patients evaluated for suspected nephrolithiasis. Patients in all three groups had pain scores of about 8 on an 11-point scale, and the rate of hospital admission was 8% to 9% across the groups.
Stoller reported that 42% of the patients had a history of kidney stones, 63% had hematuria, 52% had costovertebral angle tenderness, and enrolling emergency physicians judged the patient had >50% chance of a kidney stone in 62% of cases. Men accounted for 51% to 53% of patients in each group.
Preliminary diagnosis of enrolling physicians was appendicitis in 3.6% of cases, abdominal aortic pathology in 0.8%, and bowel pathology in 3.6%.
Rates of serious adverse events ranged from 10.8% to 12.4% and did not differ significantly across the three groups. Similarly, severe events (0.2% to 0.7%) and attributable serious adverse events (0.3% to 0.5%) occurred in a similar proportion of patients in each group.
Five patients died, but none of the deaths was considered an attributable serious adverse event (cardiac disease, addiction, metastatic lung cancer, congestive heart failure, and diabetic ketoacidosis).
In 41% of the point-of-care ultrasound studies, patients subsequently had CT imaging, compared with 27% of patients whose ultrasound was performed by a radiologist, suggesting emergency physicians were less confident of their ultrasound findings.
Cumulative radiation exposure was 9 to 10 mSv in the two ultrasound groups versus 17.4 mSv in the CT group (P<0.001). Radiation exposure during the initial ED visit was 6.6 mSv with point-of-care ultrasound, 4.6 mSv with radiologist-performed ultrasound, and 14.2 mSv when CT was the initial diagnostic imaging test (P<0.001).
Duration of ED visit averaged about 8 hours and did not differ among the three groups. The proportion of patients who returned to the ED within 1 week was higher in the CT group (11.4% versus 9% to 10% in the other two groups, P=0.041).
The three groups also did not differ significantly with respect to the proportion of patients who returned to the ED within 1 month (15% to 16%) or within 6 months (28% to 29%). Hospitalization rates were similar at 1 week, 1 month, and 6 months.
The economic analysis of the study will be reported separately, but Stoller hinted at a large cost difference between the CT and ultrasound groups, noting that an abdominal ultrasound costs about $200 compared with about $4,000 for abdominal CT.
Patients eventually could tip imaging for suspected nephrolithiasis in favor of ultrasound, said Margaret Pearle, MD, PhD, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
"There is a tremendous amount of fear of radiation exposure, and a lot of patients say they don't want to be exposed to any radiation, even though the cancer risk with this amount of radiation is pretty insignificant," Pearle told MedPage Today. "Emergency physicians are very attuned to the fact that a lot of x-ray has been overutilized and patients are paying the price for it."
Financial considerations will probably figure into the decision to go with CT or ultrasound as the initial imaging test for suspected nephrolithiasis, she acknowledged. The large cost difference between CT and ultrasound has the potential to make emergency physicians at some centers feel pressure to order a CT, even if ultrasound can do the job just as well.
The study was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Stoller disclosed no relevant relationships.
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Source Reference: Stoller M, et al "A randomized trial of ultrasound versus computed tomography for imaging patients with suspected nephrolithiasis" AUA 2014; Abstract PD4-03.


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Materials needed:
- Empty 10 CD/DVD "cake"
- 2 x protective discs. There's usually a black one at the bottom and a clear one at the top. I happened to use two black ones
- Radius cutter
- Invisible photograph mounts
- Baader Planetarium AstroSolar Film
- Sharp knife/scalpel
- Calipers
- Pair of Compasses
- Off-cut of ply or MDF
- Foam padding
I chose to use photograph mounts in order to avoid the possibility of glue getting where it wasn't wanted (on the surface of the film). It also makes disassembly easier should I ever need to replace the solar film.
Here's everything before I started. I'd already cut a hole on the "cake" lid to a mm or so less than the diameter of the scope's dew shield:
Using the caliper I measured the diameter of the central hole in the protective discs. This turned out to be 15mm
I then drew a 15mm diameter circle on an off-cut of fibreboard and positioned one of the discs over the top:
The disc was fixed to the board with screws and the radius cutter set to 10mm less than the radius of the disc. If using a larger aperture scope I'd recommend no less than 5mm less than the radius. This is to give enough room for the photo mounts (the screwdriver bit is there just to support the cutter while I took the photo):
This was repeated for the second disc so I had two black rings between which the solar film would be sandwiched:
Photograph mounts are stuck to each ring (the right hand ring split, hence the masking tape):
A square of film was cut just larger than the rings and sandwiched between them (having first removed the backing paper!) with excess film being trimmed using a sharp knife:
This assembly will be attached inside the lid (again with photo mounts) and 3 or 4 foam pads stuck around the inside to help keep the filter in place on the end of the scope.
Whilst I was at it, in true Blue Peter fashion I made a couple of filters for my 10x50 binos out of card from a cereal packet:
(edit 19:26 10 Mar) Here's the (almost) finished item. I've found that the top of the "cake" isn't flat so I may have to use blu-tak to hold things in place
And here it is perched on the end of the scope:
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The arrival of part of Admiral Duncan's Yarmouth based fleet at The Nore gave a new boost the morale of the mutineers which had been battered by the change of attitude of the people of Sheerness towards them and the defection of several ships to the government, (that story is detailed here).
While their morale may have improved their situation had not. They were cut off from shore, denied supplies, and the government refused to enter into further negotiations with them. Some unnamed genius came up with the idea that two could play at that game and conceived the idea of a blockade of the Thames and, therefore, of London. Accordingly, on the evening of May 31, Richard Parker presented himself at the home of the port commissioner at Sheerness and announced that London was under blockade.
At first, it seemed like this was mere bluster but on June 2 HMS Swan, sloop, began intercepting inbound merchantmen and detaining them. The traffic soon outpaced the capabilities of a single ship and HMS Brilliant (28), HMS Standard (64), and HMS Inspector (16) were called upon to lend a helping hand.
Parker and the mutineers desperately needed a bring the mutiny to an end and this move seems calculated to do just that.


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Florida Snakes Visual Identification
Different species of snake can often be distinguished by their characteristic color patterns. Some are single uniform colors. Others have dark or light markings organized into stripes, spots, blotches or some other pattern. Here is a quick look at most of Florida's snakes by pattern:
Crossbands are bands of color extending across the back and down the sides, but do not cross the belly. The belly frequently is a lighter contrasting color.
Rings are bands of color that extend across the back, down the sides and across the belly to completely encircle the body. Also, because they are similar, we have a simple guide to compare the Eastern Coral Snake, Scarlet Kingsnake, and Scarlet Snake.
Stripes are narrow lines of color that run lengthwise down the snake's body. They may be only one scale wide or may be several scales wide.
Uniform colors are solid colors, black, brown, tan, orange, yellow, gray, blue or green, without any markings. On some species the color may be darker on the head and neck and become lighter on the back part of the body. Some may appear uniform in color in some light and at some angles. We've included snakes here that often appear uniform in color initially.
Blotches are large squarish or irregular shaped markings, frequently with dark borders. Large rectangular blotches that cross the back resemble crossbands.
Diamonds are slightly overlapping diamond-shaped blotches running down the middle of the back. They usually have dark borders or dark and light borders.


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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – It's fun traveling to places where your expectations are totally blown away and just as exciting when your expectations are spot-on accurate.
Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, is a city almost exactly how I imagined it – large, Vegas-like with a Middle Eastern flare, cosmopolitan and kind of strange.
Dubai's display of money and lavishness begins as soon as you land at the airport, which is undergoing an expansion, in part because Emirates Airlines can't buy planes fast enough to meet its air service demands.
That's the thing about Dubai, which is known as the entertainment capital of the Middle East – it's big. Really, really big.
Like Las Vegas, Dubai is a city of consumption. There might not be alcohol allowed in public (bars, hotels and restaurants only), or any casinos or strip clubs, but there are shopping malls with the best designer fashions, big name chefs who have opened restaurants throughout the city and fancy cars – Maseratis, Ferraris, Lamborghinis – which are everywhere.
The city's skyline is massive, too. There seems to be a new skyline around every corner, as the major development areas in the city's various districts are now practically adjoined because the construction of buildings has bled out in every direction during the city's construction boom during the past 20 years.
Signs of hard economic times are visible, though. Dubai, once a fishing village but now a global hub for business and commerce, is full of cranes that were once working to build even more skyscrapers throughout the expanding city. Many of those cranes are still there, as are the half-finished buildings, but they're not moving and haven't been since about 2008, when America's financial crisis hit.
Empty construction sites are everywhere – practically right next-door to the bustling area of the Dubai Mall, which is also where the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, stands.
The view from the top of the Burj Khalifa is incredible but also telling. From 2,716 feet in the sky, you can look down and see the recession's aftermath blended together with glimmers of economic hope.
Dubai itself feels unfinished. What is this city trying to become? Will it ever happen?
City full of action
Dubai's struggles don't mean that its accomplishments aren't fascinating. In less than 20 years, the city has exploded from its much more humble and understated roots.
Beautiful beaches, a hot, desert climate and easy access to practically anywhere in the Eastern Hemisphere make Dubai an attractive place for tourists.
The shopping malls – there are seemingly hundreds of them – are interesting so-called attractions. It's strange because in Dubai I was interested in the malls, even though the last time I think I enjoyed being in a mall was when I was about 15 years old.
Dubai malls feature Prada, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and every other designer name you'd find on Rodeo Drive, and plenty of other familiar stores and restaurants such as the Cheesecake Factory (coming soon) and that obnoxious Rainforest Cafe chain found in malls all over America.
I went to the malls for the people watching -that and because in May the air-conditioned malls are a great place to escape the heat.
You'll hear about 100 languages while strolling around, and something I found beyond fascinating was watching the Arab women in traditional Muslim dress – many of whom wore the long black cloaks and head dresses with nothing more than their eyes showing – shopping in these stores for designer clothing and jewelry. I saw one woman purchasing what looked like a $100,000 necklace, yet not an inch of her skin was showing. Where was she planning to wear it?
One thing not to miss in Dubai is a desert safari. A driver takes you out onto the vast sand dunes in a Toyota Landcruiser, lets some air out of the tires for sand dune "bashing" and drops you off the sides of the rolling dunes going sideways and backwards, with every drop feeling like the car is going to flip over. It's thrilling and terrifying all at the same time, but the drivers have to go through an exhaustive list of training and tests before being licensed by the state, so that adds at least some comfort to the experience. Our driver, an Iranian man in his late 20s, was unbelievably good. You can also rent four-by-fours or a Yamaha Banshee for a self-driven thrill ride, and of course you can also ride a camel.
One-of-a-kind experiences
Other sites not to miss: Ski Dubai at the Mall of the Emirates (a $400 million indoor ski resort with five runs and the equivalent of three football fields covered in snow, which is made fresh daily); and a drive to Abu Dhabi with a stopover at the Yas Marina Formula One Circuit, where for about $410 you can drive an Aston Martin GT4 on the track for 20 minutes at speeds up to about 180 mph (I went about 135 mph and felt the experience was just brilliant).
The food in Dubai is also exciting. The options are endless – Lebanese, Indian, European, South American, Thai, Japanese – you name it. We ate Lebanese several times because it was just so good, but we also stopped by Richard Sandoval's Toro Toro for dinner for a hip, Dubai nightlife experience.
Sandoval, also the owner of Cima in Avon, designed a beautiful restaurant with Toro Toro. You walk up to a doorman who lets you into a dazzling, dimly lit hot spot. The dining room is loud because people are having a great time, and the upstairs bar and lounge is beyond happening. Toro Toro is also worth a visit because it's in a truly exciting area for Dubai nightlife, the Dubai Marina district. This area is hopping with exotic sports cars and cafes and bars where you can smoke shisha out of hookahs, a popular nighttime social activity here.
All in all, Dubai is an exciting city. I'm not rushing to get back there anytime soon, but if I find myself connecting through again sometime, it would be nice to stay for a few days to continue exploring.
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Just Cause 2 is a sandbox style action video
game currently under development by Swedish developer Avalanche Studios and Eidos Interactive, published by Square Enix. It is the sequel to the 2006 video game, Just Cause.
Just Cause 2 employs a new version of the Avalanche Engine,
Avalanche Engine 2.0, which is an updated version of the engine used in Just Cause. The game will be set on the other side of the world, compared to Just Cause, which is on the fictional tropical island of Panau in Southeast Asia. Rico Rodriguez will return as the protagonist, aiming to overthrow the evil dictator Pandak "Baby" Panay and confront his former boss, Tom Sheldon.
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The Prometheus Pro is a high-performance, handheld Thermal monocular. The Prometheus Pro can absorb even the most brutal environmental shocks. The Prometheus Pro features the most advanced system available on the market today, including options like an electronic compass and inclinometer.
Utilizing the FLIR TAU-2 technology, the Prometheus Pro is offered in 336x256 or 640x512 pixel formats. These options are further enhanced by professional, military-grade 50mm or 100mm Germanium (Ge) objective lenses, creating a wide variety of optical magnifications and range performance capabilities that the customer can select from. Armasight has introduced a unique dual battery option for the Prometheus Pro that consists of either four 3.0 V DC CR123A batteries or four 1.5VDC AA batteries pre-loaded in a cartridge.
The Prometheus Pro uses a 9-pin multi-pin connector to provide video-in imagery, where there may be a need for map or range-finder display overlays, as well as external power access. The Prometheus Pro has Bluetooth© wireless capabilities and can directly interface with most smart phones, with the potential for engaging a series of current and future applications.
The Prometheus Pro is the ideal tool for scouting and target detection where the ambient environment is oriented for concealment. The Prometheus Pro is also an extremely useful tool for viewing scenes through environmental obscurants such as smoke, haze, fog, or dust.
- Active Contrast Enhancement (ACE) – a digital "Contrast" correction that allows for a smart scene optimization based on dynamic adjustments where a variety of contrast levels occur depending on relative scene temperature.
- Second Generation Digital Detail Enhancement (DDE) – a "Sharpness" correction that is digitally enhances the picture to present clearer imagery, significantly improves edge sharpening and further reduces image noise.
- Smart Scene Optimization (SSO) – a fine-tuning computational correction that significantly improves an overall visual acuity for targets that have thermal signatures similar to a surrounding background.
- Information Based Histogram Equalization (IBHEQ) – a "Sky/Sea" enhancement – information based environment dependent algorithm that automatically adjusts camera gain and excludes pixels determined to not contain critical information, specifically helpful in scenes with lots of sky or water.
- Automatic Gain Control (AGC) – a "Gain" correction that used to automatically adjust the gain to an appropriate range, the weaker the image signal, the stronger the gain.
- User Controlled Manual Non Uniformity Correction/Flat-Field Correction (UCMNUC/FFC). There is a mechanical shutter between the camera sensor and the lens. This shutter is used to perform a non-uniformity correction (NUC) also known as flat-field correction (FFC. During FFC, the shutter presents a uniform temperature source to each detector element in the array. While imaging the flat-field source, the camera updates the offset correction coefficients, resulting in a more uniform image after the process is complete. All Prometheus Pro models allow for user to manually trigger or interrupt scheduled UCMNUC/FFC function.
- Silent Shutterless NUC ™ (SSN) – In addition to user controlled manual NUC/FFC all Prometheus Pro models employ a digital supplemental non-mechanical flat-field correction that allows to extend the periods between mechanical shutter events and to further reduce image noise. SSN is always ON enhancement.
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Howard succeeds Bennett as head basketball coach at Penn State DuBois
Howard succeeds Bennett as head basketball coach at Penn State DuBois
Dylan Howard has been named head coach for the Penn State DuBois men's basketball team following the departure of head coach Dave Bennett. Howard has served as assistant coach for six years. Bennett, who held the position for eight years, resigned this week to pursue other challenges, and continue to teach and instruct the game that he loves. Bennett's teams have captured the Penn State Athletic Conference (PSUAC ) Championship twice in his career and have played in the U.S. Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) National Tournament four times; finishing second in in 2007 and fourth in 2010. With more than 100 wins at DuBois, Bennett leaves big shoes to fill.
Howard has been a part of the campus basketball program for 10 years. In addition to his time as assistant coach, he enjoyed an outstanding career at as a player at Penn State DuBois, earning Academic All-Conference honors three times, first team All-Conference player honors in 2008 and USCAA All-American Honorable Mention in 2008; and scoring 1,070 points in his career.
"I am happy for both Dave and Dylan at this time of transition for our campus basketball team," said Athletic Director Ken Nellis. "Dave has created an environment and attitude of excellence on campus and in the community towards academics and basketball. We can't thank Dave enough for the time, energy and commitment to his players over the past eight seasons; I will miss having him on the sidelines next season."
Upon his bitter-sweet resignation Bennett said, "I want to thank the administration, faculty and staff at Penn State DuBois for their support over the past nine years. Coaching here has been an incredible experience, and I will always cherish the memories. The appreciation that I have for all the outstanding young men who were student-athletes in our program is immeasurable. These young men helped us build a championship level program and create countless memories."
On turning the reigns over to Dylan Howard Bennett stated, "I've been fortunate to have had the pleasure of coaching coach Howard for three years and having him as part of my coaching staff for another six years. Through that time, I have seen Dylan grow and mature into a remarkable basketball coach and leader. He has shown exceptional knowledge of the game, the ability to recruit outstanding student-athletes and genuine devotion to the success of student-athletes on and off the court. Dylan will be an excellent head coach, and the Penn State DuBois Basketball Program is in great hands going forward."
Nellis commented on Howard taking over the basketball program, saying, "Dylan has the same philosophy as coach Bennett towards academics being priority one. The style of play should be similar since they have worked together for many years and have been successful. I am pleased Dylan has accepted the position and do expect the basketball team to continue to do very well in the PSUAC conference and USCAA tournament."


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…wo hab Ich den Cache denn nochmal hingelegt??? (GC1DZ17) – GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – December 27, 2012
Since 2008, this Geocache of the Week geocache owner has been asking himself "…wo hab Ich den Cache denn nochmal hingelegt???" (GC1DZ17). That is, "where did I place that cache again???" To answer his question, we head to Hamburg, Germany, where the difficulty 2, terrain 2 geocache has been named an absolute favorite among geocachers.
The geocache "wonders" within a small radius of the initial coordinates. Finding it requires a sixth sense, known as the geocaching instinct. You see, Mr.T has asked geocachers to hide the geocache in the same manner they found it, but place it in a slightly different location. In order to understand this request, we should probably explain that the geocache location is comprised of at least seven dozen flower pots.
The flower pots were placed in front of the Hamburg Constitutional Court about 10 years ago as an art project. The geocache moves from one flower pot to another, adding a little challenge to uncovering the hidden treasure. The cache coordinates will bring geocachers to the concrete block in front of the court house, but then it's up to geocachers to find out which flower pot holds the small "wandering" cache container.
As the cache page suggests, "ist ja garnicht so einfach," meaning "it's not that easy," when you have 90 iron pillars to search from in this fairly high muggle area, but nearly 2,000 geocachers have managed to log a smiley and awarded it 261 Favorite Points. The extensive logs capture a lot of fun and entertaining experiences.
One geocacher logging this find wrote, "What a great idea! I had this cache on my watch list for some time. It took us a little while to find it. At first there were some muggles around us and we didn't want to look suspicious. It also took us a while to find it. It's not as easy as it looks with so many flower pots. We checked some of them twice and then finally there it was! Funny how it's always the one you never expected. We re-hid it in a different location as advised. Good luck to the next cachers. "
Continue to explore some of the most engaging geocaches around the globe. Check out all the Geocaches of the Week on the Geocaching blog or view the Bookmark List on Geocaching.com.
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This Game Should Have Been Better
Two minutes. Jon Scheyer made a three-pointer after two fast paced hard fought minutes. Two minutes later, Purdue finally scored when Chris Kramer final hit a jumper to make the game 7-2. It would seem that the Boilermakers were a little to hyped to play Duke Tuesday night in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
In the second half Purdue had another scoring draught of over four minutes and if JaJuan Johnson had not scored eight points in a row, Purdue would have not scored until 10:48 left in the game when E'Twaun Moore hit a jumper.
In the match-up of star 6'8" sophomore forwards, Duke's Kyle Singler out-played Purdue's preseason Big-Ten player of the Year candidate, Robbie Hummel. Even if the stat lines don't look as such.
I must admit, even as a Dukie, I did not buy into Singler until a few games into the season. Working hard over the summer to add 10 pounds of muscle, Singler looks the part of a McDonalds All-American. And the game at Purdue furthered my belief that he can lead and make playes in big games when needed.
Coaches will say that no game is more important than any other. That's crap. And you get see the evidence all over the court Tuesday night. Players were diving for loose balls, attempting to take charges, giving hard fouls. Even Singler seemed to be amped up for Duke's first real test of the season.
Singler finished the evening with 20 points and 12 rebounds – six offense – and hit shots when his team needed them. Singler was all over the place with hustle plays and guarded Hummel and did not allow any east shots.
Hummel was completely invisible until halfway through the second half and then he ended with 15 points and 8 rebounds. But his play did not affect the game nearly as much as Singler. For that matter, all Purdue players games did not affected the out come as much as Singler as Purdue looked rushed in their offense and over-matched by Duke's talent.
I have never been on to beleieve that stats alone can tell the whole story of a game. Well, Tuesday night it certainly did. Two key stats showed how lopsided this game truly was; Duke out rebounded Purdue 43 to 26. And the Boilermakers shoot 2 for 13 from the three point line and Duke shoot 8 for 22. Schyer also finished with 20 points.
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Ralph Sampson's kid is coming to Minnesota. Tubby Smith had instantly proved his importance to the Gopher Nation as Sampson highlighted the 23rd best recruiting class in the country, but there was another tall post player who was a part of the recruiting class. And that player has started all seven games and Tuesday night in the Gophers toughest game this season, he had the best game of his short career.
The 6'10" 235-pound Colton Iverson came in to his senior his under the radar in Yankton, South Dakota. Not many people knew who he was and even fewer knew less about his game.
Iverson stock rose to be ranked among Top 150 recruits after a strong senior season when he averaged 17.5 ppg, 12.9 rpg and 2.7 blocks and a summer where his AAU team won the Hoosier Shootout and he won the tourney's MVP. His stock so much that even Billy Donavan and the Florida Gators were interested.
In the Minnesota's win against Virginia, the Gophers looked for Iverson on offense and he responding finishing 5 for 6 from the floor, 4 for 6 from the foul line for 14 points. He also grabbed seven rebounds and four of which were offensive.
Iverson altered more shots than he blocked (2) but along with Ralph Sampson and Damian Johnson, the Gophers frontcourt finished with seven blocks, 14 rebounds and 20 points. Compared to the four best Cavalier post players who had 11 points, 16 rebounds and two blocks.
Quick Hits
Miami's Jack McClinton's best shot of the night? After starting off the game 4-4 from distance, McClinton took a shot at Ohio States guard Anthony Carter and slapped Carter in the face. After a quick conference with the refs, McClinton was ejected. Ohio State won 73-68.
The Memphis Tigers blew out the Marist Red Foxes 100-61. Here is the stat-line for Memphis guard Tyreke Evans: 10 for 13 from the floor, 2 for 4 from behind the arc, 2 for 6 from the chariot stripe – weak, six rebounds, four assists, three steals, and 24 points. Marist was tough.
In the same "why the hell are you playing each other" vein, Notre Dame beat South Dakota 102-76. Notre Dame's Randy Ayers finished with 35 points, 6 rebounds, shot 9 for 14 from distance and 12 for 20 from the field.
New Jersey Institute of Technology lost again. Stony Brook outscored the Highlanders, 60-39.
By the end of the Tuesday the ACC/Big Ten Challenge was all tied-up at 3-3.


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Apologies for the delay in this post but following Momentum I had a week off to spend time with the family, and I wanted to make sure that time was spent with them and not writing more blog posts.
This is the last post on a specific session and covers a session which was presented by Randy Hodge on Wednesday, it was a late session but was still relatively well attended. Randy is a knowledgeable guy and the presentation was good in that it came across as someone who knows their stuff and not necessarily someone who has been presented with a message to give.
Firstly I must say that this was really a presentation on strategy so there is no commitment that what was presented will actually come to fruition.
Firstly Randy justified the move to cloud as a need to reduce the pain which customers feel and to reduce the crippling TCO. Reducing this TCO of services will stop the current situation of too much money being spent on maintenance and not enough on investment opportunities.
In talking about Cloud Randy then talked about how to consider the EMC IIG stack and the message I took is that xCP is PaaS and something like the Investigative Case Management solution is SaaS. Generally I agreed with the messaging here but there were a few things which we could quibble about, e.g. where does Captiva fit in. EMC are seeing customer demand for the cloud especially in xCP and customers are making moves to deploy xCP applications to the cloud in areas such as Justice, FS and Health. Similarly IIG want to move customers to the cloud.
xCP for the cloud will:
- evangelise xCP on VMWare;
- drive down TCO and increase agility;
- revolutionise the way applications are developed and deployed;
- evolve the ecosystem model;
He then announced that xCP is now VMWare ready.
He described how xCP in the cloud will drive down costs, Virtualisation can do this too but Cloud can further drive down costs.
The characteristics of a successful cloud solution, as defined by NIST, are:
- Rapid elasticity;
- Resource Pooling (multi-tenancy);
- Measured Service;
- On demand self service;
- Ubiquitous network access
He then talked about multi-tenancy and how that can be achieved. This was interesting as Randy and I had discussed this earlier in the week and I think this still needs a bit of refinement, my belief that the number of tenants does not drive whether a solution should be considered multi-tenant or not although it is one factor. Imagine a scenario with two organisations wanting to share an ECM repository but with different business processes yet the content subject to the same Policies for retention. Randy talked about the Dedicated Repository Model or the Shared Repository Model, my problem below would need some thinking about how to resolve (perhaps Federated RM is the way forward there?).
Another interesting statement was that EMC want to provide services which can be consumed elsewhere, so the EMC app may not be the primary application which users interact with but could provide an element of the overall business process. I am seeing this more and more and the introduction of CMIS will, I think, increase the number of scenarios where this is applicable.
Finally Randy showed a diagram and used it to explain the various models which xCP in the Cloud will be delivered. Unfortunately my notes do not do justice to the diagram so I will attempt to describe it instead:
- Traditional model where SI's build an application based on xCP and deploy it to the Cloud which is then accessed by end users;
- A model where ISV's develop apps built on xCP and deploy these to an App Store from where they are purchased and accessed by users;
- A model where xCP is deployed within the Cloud and the services are exposed and then consumed through custom applications which may or may not be deployed in another cloud.
As I say that doesn't really do the session justice, I felt as though it was an interesting session and given that I have asked EMC before about Cloud it is something they need to get moving on and get moving quickly.


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Game 2: Pre-Game
Funny that A.J. Burnett said he cant remember much about his kaboom start against the Phillies in the Bronx in May, but Pedro Martinez seems to recall every detail of every nanosecond he spent at the old Yankee Stadium, and in fact each moment inside the city of New York, and probably which of Don Zimmers fingers first touched him during their still remarkable brawl.
I wonder if the Phillies were not reminded by the travails of Brad Lidge of the intensity and focus required to win a Worlds Championship, while the Yankees might have begun to believe all of the exaggerated things written about them in the New York papers. They still dont seem even slightly worried, and given that Burnett has proved himself the most easily rattled pitcher since Nuke LaLoosh, they should be.
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Ah, a Nuke LaLoosh reference. Top drawer.
Let's hope to God A.J. Burnett doesn't take the mound tonight wearing just a jockstrap, stirrups, and cleats.
Maybe Annie's garter belt would help.. just have to remember the rose goes in the front, big guy.
I see my old friend Bobby V. is stateside. I hope he can get a job in a MLB dugout again. Perhaps he could bring Tim Johnson back from his Elba. Let's see if we could get Bobby V., Tim Johnson, Davy Lopes, and Von Joshua all in the same dugout. It sure would make it easy for the Spokane Indians when they celebrate the 40th anniversary of the best team in Minor League history next year. One phone call would do it all. Maybe Garvey, Cey and Billy Russell will be busy that weekend. I thought that first pitch in LA with Lopes in the Philly dugout was the least classy thing the Dodgers have done since signing 99.
I hope to god A game Burnett shows up, is it too late to sign Amanda Whurlitzer?
I hope A game Burnett shows up. Is it too late to sign Amanda Whurlitzer?
Funny you bring up the Zimmer/Pedro incident, I have been arguing this for two days with Yankee hating people seemingly all over the net, it appears they think if an old man runs towards a young man the young man has no responsibility to not engage him.
I just don't get that.
Fortunately, Burnett didn't seem to be doing his impression of Nuke tonight. 🙂
I thought it was disgraceful, how Martinez grabbed Zimmer and threw him down. Zimmer started it, but Martinez could have just shoved him away once or twice, until other people arrived to break things up. I'm reminded of an NBA game years ago, in which the Suns' A.C. Green got a tooth knocked out by an opposing player. Everybody expected him to get angry and go after the guy, but Green had enough class to be calm, pick up the tooth, and walk away. Now that is conduct becoming of a sportsman. If only Martinez had one iota of that level of character.


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Entropy -- the measure of disorder or randomness -- isn't always desirable in the world of IT security. Kinda, sorta patching your IT systems sometimes, for example, would be a bad thing. At times, though, entropy can be a powerful tool, as in the case of well-chosen passwords that are difficult to crack. A fast-growing SIEM (security incident event managment) company called Vigilant is using entropy in an innovative way that warrants a closer look: Its anomaly-detection service identifies malicious threats based on entropy.
First, a quick primer: Entropy, often measured in bits, is the technical measurement of the randomness of the next piece of data in a string. If you see a sequence of letters with a clear pattern, such as "ABABABABA," you would logically predict the next letter in the series will be B. Because the answer is fairly certain, the entropy would be 0. If you're flipping a coin, the predicted outcome, heads or tails, is considered to be 1 bit of entropy. If a native English speaker is shown a sequence of standard English text and is asked to predict the next letter, he or she could guess it with great accuracy. English text is considered to have an entropy of 0.6 to 1.5 bits.
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One more example: A truly random 8-character password, using every possible character on a standard keyboard, could have 52 bits of entropy. Unfortunately, most people use common words as part of their passwords, so most have only 18 bits of entropy. Thus, a password cracker doesn't need to work through every permutation, just the most likely ones in the range of 218, which is far easier than 252. (Read Appendix A and Table A.1 of NIST Special Publication 800-63 for all the nerdy calculations and details.)
In the realm of IT security, antispam services have long used entropy and its link to anomaly detection to sniff out unwanted messages. If the service detects a single email account sending out messages to thousands of seemingly random and unconnected addresses, the provider will usually examine the message for other indicators that it's spam. Entropy and its link in anomaly detection isn't new, but Vigilant has extended it further to fighting malware.